SENATE DOCKET, NO. 312        FILED ON: 1/14/2015

SENATE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 456

 

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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PRESENTED BY:

Marc R. Pacheco

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To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in General
Court assembled:

The undersigned legislators and/or citizens respectfully petition for the adoption of the accompanying bill:

An Act establishing tracking and reporting requirements for Massachusetts transportation fuels and associated greenhouse gas emissions.

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PETITION OF:

 

Name:

District/Address:

Marc R. Pacheco

First Plymouth and Bristol

Frank I. Smizik

15th Norfolk

Chris Walsh

6th Middlesex

Denise Provost

27th Middlesex

Michelle M. DuBois

10th Plymouth

Marjorie C. Decker

25th Middlesex

Jason M. Lewis

Fifth Middlesex

Michael J. Barrett

Third Middlesex

James B. Eldridge

Middlesex and Worcester

Benjamin Swan

11th Hampden

Cynthia S. Creem

First Middlesex and Norfolk


SENATE DOCKET, NO. 312        FILED ON: 1/14/2015

SENATE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 456

By Mr. Pacheco, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 456) of Marc R. Pacheco, Frank I. Smizik, Chris Walsh, Denise Provost and other members of the General Court for legislation to establish tracking and reporting requirements for Massachusetts transportation fuels and associated greenhouse gas emissions.  Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture.

 

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

 

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In the One Hundred and Eighty-Ninth General Court
(2015-2016)

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An Act establishing tracking and reporting requirements for Massachusetts transportation fuels and associated greenhouse gas emissions.

 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
 

SECTION 1.  The Department of Environmental Protection shall promulgate regulations requiring producers, importers, and wholesale distributors that sell, supply, or offer for sale transportation fuels in Massachusetts to report all Massachusetts transportation fuel sales, and the source of any fuel sold, to the Department of Environmental Protection. The regulations shall require the Department of Environmental Protection to compute and track the individual and collective lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions of all fuels, as well as the carbon intensity of each fuel, that are reported by regulated entities on an annual basis.

SECTION 2. All sales, lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions, and carbon intensity data collected or computed by the Department of Environmental Protection pursuant to the regulations required by Section 1 shall be published by the Department in an annual report that is available to the public.

SECTION 3. The regulations required by Section 1 shall be promulgated within 180 days of passage of this Act, and must take effect within 180 days of promulgation.